Chapter 174: Backwardness

Fabregas made a long-range shot in the 40th minute, the ball was saved by Alisson, Fabregas didn't expect the opponent's goalkeeper to react so quickly, so he could only shake his head regretfully and turn around and run towards his own half.

Roma as Italy's old traditional strong team, July 22, 1927, by the merger of several local clubs in Rome city, in 1929 Rome for the first time in the Italian top football league, is now one of the Italian football league teams, Roma team has won a total of 3 Serie A championships in history.

In recent seasons, with the arrival of the American Palotta consortium, Roma's strength has increased day by day, and with the gradual stabilization of strength and style in recent years, Roma has now become one of the strongest teams in Italy.

There are many outstanding players in the Roma team, such as goalkeeper Alisson is the goalkeeper of the Brazilian national team, Stroman is also the main midfielder of the Dutch national team, and Bosnia and Herzegovina's striker Dzeko scored 12 goals in 17 games for the national team, and Roma also began to counterattack after falling behind.

Roma goalkeeper Alisson drove the ball to the centre circle with a big kick, Stroman hooked the ball and handed it to his team's wide fast horse Perotti, who took the ball and quickly broke down the wing, but the Chelsea wide player could not keep up with his pace and was successfully broken through by him.

Cahill moved quickly to the right of the team, ready to intercept Perotti's breakthrough, and at this time central defender Andreas Christensen had already taped Perotti on, and Christensen kept Perotti from behind.

Perotti was obviously inferior to Christensen in terms of physicality, so he could only try to defend the ball, look up for the ball, and when he watched the position of his teammates, Perotti passed the ball to Dzeko's control with his toes when Christensen was about to make a successful tackle.

After getting the ball, Dzeko quickly drove forward, Cahill rushed up again, Dzeko made two quick stops in a row, and Dzeko used his speed advantage to shake off Cahill's defense.

Cahill looked at the No. 9 jersey in the distance, and could only sigh helplessly, taking advantage of the situation to break into the penalty area with the ball, Dzeko, in the face of the attacking Courtois, did not choose a shot with little chance, but calmly dialed the ball to the middle, striker Gerson followed up in time, and directly pushed with his left foot in the face of the empty goal, and the football flew into the gate guarded by Courtois.

After the goal, Gerson was also excited to run and shout all over the field, and the biggest contributors to the goal, Dzeko and Perottti, also hugged their teammates excitedly, seeing that Roma had scored, the more than 3,000 Roma fans on the scene were finally boiling, and they equalized with five minutes left in the first half, and they cheered loudly while waving their scarves.

After conceding the goal, Chelsea did not show panic, under the signal of Kodic, they still relied on the wing attack to continue to put pressure on the Roma team, for the opponent's tactics, Kodic has long dealt with the way, Dzeko and Perotti are extremely fast side breakthrough players, only Jones can keep up with their speed in the team, Kodic of course will not use his front core to do side defensive work, not to mention Jones is still an offensive player.

In the 43rd minute, Perotti, who once again broke through Chelsea's side defense, sent a high-quality cross on the edge of the penalty area, and Dzeko in front of the small penalty area directly shook his head and put the ball in front of the unguarded situation, and the score became 2-3, and the Roma players hugged excitedly on the field

"Kodic! This doesn't work, Roma's wide players found our weakness on the left flank, and they scored two goals in a row to overtake the score, and we have to make adjustments now! Osilai reminded Kodic that this is his role as an assistant coach.

"I know what you mean, but now once the defense is contracted, although their wing attack loses the space to break through, their attack in the middle will be more unscrupulous, maybe we will be more passive, there are only a few minutes left in the first half, I am adjusting at halftime!"

Ossi looked at the game record on the computer and said: "Roma's three goals are all through the speed of the wing, so far a total of 10 times through the wing to break through our defense, there are three goals, is telling you that if we take a shrink defense maybe we will be very passive, but continue like this, they play like this, if we score again, we will definitely lose this game!" ”

"Damn it! Okay, Osi, let's hold on for a few minutes, shrink our defense, and then get back to the advantage in the second half. ”

Cordic walked to the sidelines and made a gesture to the players to shrink back, and the next game, against a passive Chelsea, Roma launched an all-out attack, and for a moment New Chelsea in front of goal was in constant danger.

Kodic also stood on the sidelines and looked anxiously at his watch from time to time, these few minutes were a bit long for him! Finally, with the referee's whistle, the first half of the game was over.

The Chelsea fans in the stands were not deterred by the home team's falling behind, and they stood rhythmically in the stands clapping and cheering on the players, believing that they would win in the end.

When Jones and his teammates were all back in the locker room, head coach James Codyci walked in with a black face.

"Jones! Are you tired? I'll let you disturb the other party, not for you to hang out on it, give me your strength in the second half! Otherwise, I will have to replace you! ”

"Uh...... Good coach, I'm just trying to save my energy and make them look good in the second half! Jones didn't expect them to catch the hole and score two goals in a row.

"Cahill, why didn't Dzeko have a single defender around him when he entered the box, he should have been defended by you!"

Cahill sat there: "It was my mistake, coach, they won't have a chance in the second half! ”。

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"You know, we're representing England, the best performing club in the Premier League this season, think about the fans in the stands, they're not paying for tickets to see how you lose at home!" Kodic continued.

Ossilai stood next to him and secretly pointed to Kodic's watch, indicating that there was not much time to rest.

Kodic nodded: "The opponent's wing did find the problem that we couldn't keep up, their breakthrough did cause us a lot of trouble, but we have to use sharper attacks than them to make them have no chance to attack, we should be in control of the game, we will win the game in the end!" ”

"Roma took the lead in the first half and the Roma manager, after taking the lead, absolutely knew that I was not willing to lose at home, and would have looked for an equaliser at the start of the second half!"